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The Occupiers - The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Hardcover)
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The Occupiers - The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Hardcover)
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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of
2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors
filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500
towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly
evicted. In The Occupiers, Michael Gould-Wartofsky-one of the first
social scientists on the ground in Zuccotti Park-offers a
front-seat view of the action in the streets of New York City and
beyond. Painting a vivid picture of everyday life in the square
through the use of material gathered in the course of a year of
participant observation, Gould-Wartofksy traces the occupation of
Zuccotti Park-and some of its counterparts across the United States
and around the world-from inception to eviction. He takes up the
challenges the occupiers faced, the paradoxes of direct democracy,
and the dynamics of direct action and police action and explores
the ways in which occupied squares became focal points for an
emerging opposition to the politics of austerity, restricted
democracy, and the power of corporate America. Much of the
discourse on the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived
and died in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted
occupiers into exile and charts the evolving strategies of the
movement as it seeks to resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Removed from
public spaces and news headlines, Occupy has spread out from the
financial centers and across an America still struggling to recover
in the aftermath of the crisis. Even if the movement fails to
achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofksy maintains, it may well
accelerate the pace of change in the United States in the years to
come.
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